Right on cue, as the sun sets on Verndale Rail 2012, an eastbound arrives in town to give the large contingent of railfans still gathered the chance to take a few glint shots. A few of them are v... (more)

After some great conversation, awesome food, golden oreos in a cup of ice cream, and a mountain dew or 7, catching this meet at dusk was icing on the cake! West and eastbound manifests meet at th... (more)

With nothing else to do around the house, I set out and went over to a little farm road crossing on the Geneva Subdivision and spent the day. After seeing UP 1995 and CNW 8701 together running tow... (more)

Early on the morning of November 29, 1968, two freight trains collided head on just south of Hale Center, Texas, on the Plainview District. As a result, the 213L broke completely in half just behi... (more)

It's well after sunset and snow is beginning to fall on the evening of January 28, 2000. Amtrak No. 4, the Southwest Chief, leaves Wagon Mound, New Mexico in a dark cloud of snow. The mesa visible... (more)

End of another day in Powder River Basin
The DPU's of a Union Pacific coal train cast a silhouette against a brilliant sky moments after sunset, south of Bill, Wyoming, on June 29, 2002... (more)

Reading Lines 1067, Norfolk Southern's twelfth heritage unit, basks in the sunshine outside the shop in Muncie. For more information, visit more)

Got lucky Finding a prop, A train parked on a load out on the old MStL just off the Spineline. Shot at F 45 the sun was so bright you can see it in the lens bending around the aperture blades, Som... (more)

GR 12 # 2402 and GL26C-2 # 2005 and 2010 started the ascent from the Salar de Ascotan to the hill before reaching Salar de Carcote. Trainload from Mejillones to Ollagüe (-San Cristóbal mine) was... (more)

Touching the sky! The FCAB line to Bolivia is reaching nearly 4000 meter on the Ascotan pass summit, here we are on about 3450 m. Untypical precipitations in december 2011 caused more snow then us... (more)

An appropriate ending to National Train Day 2012: an eastbound unit oil train blasts out of a perfect sunset at Sedan, MN.

As the sunsets on the evening, a conventional coal train rolls east thru southern Iowa. This coal load is 10 miles east of Fairfield en route to Burlington, IA, for next crew train. This train wil... (more)

97 grain loads from Melville, SK emerge from the fog at Juniata, SK while an amazing sunrise takes place to the east.

A version in color of our Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge freight as it sits under a quickly setting sun taking on some water prior to a departure to Chama. One of several unstaged scenes to b... (more)

An extra West Colton, CA to Roseville, CA manifest waits in the hole at Ansel. A southbound manifest is approaching the siding with the sun already behind the mountains leaving an impressive impri... (more)